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A Bright Star in the Black Night

...And Skadi had her way much snow today 
Imparted volunteer job hopes soar high.
Each Thor’s day , a shining star in a black sky
Orange in my throat and gob smacked, what to  say?
And never let the...

Categories: sawbones, fate,
Form: Sonnet

Purely psychosomatic

...Where liveth preen for empathy 
Drew ragged, 
Poor sawbones perscribed
"where in pain warrants lithe deformities"
Swimming,
Loathed from the east
Collared, 
Hung dry,
Pruned by the sweat of a...

Categories: sawbones, absence, deep, depression, feelings,
Form: Free verse

Sawbones Behest

...He rode a trail from out west.
Twas at the sawbone's behest.
As he turned southeast,
Ran into Cochise.
So, now He's Mincemeat, They said....

Categories: sawbones, fantasy,
Form: Limerick

Book: Radiant Verses: A Journey Through Inspiring Poetry

Neuropathy Pa- Nop- Ly

...Neuropathy in my hands.
A panoply is the rest.
A screw loose in my head.
With itis through my back.
It's what old sawbones said.
But he saved the best for last.
Seems I have two more days
Plea...

Categories: sawbones, fun,
Form: Rhyme

Medieval Poems Iii

...Medieval Poems



Deor's Lament (Anglo Saxon poem, circa 10th century AD)
loose translation/interpretation by Michael R. Burch

Weland knew the agony of exile.
That indomitable smith was wrac...

Categories: sawbones, england, grief, poems, poetry,
Form: Rhyme

A Vultures Homily

...I am vulture
My soul case may be repugnant,
However, I have every sawbones decimal
On my speed dial
Before any croacker decrees justice
On a soul case,
They confer with me

My logbook contain...

Categories: sawbones, africa, art, creation, discrimination,
Form: Personification

William Dunbar: Lament For the Makaris Translation

...Lament for the Makaris ("Lament for the Makers/Poets")
by William Dunbar [c. 1460-1530]
loose translation/interpretation by Michael R. Burch
 
i who enjoyed good health and gladness
am overwhelm...

Categories: sawbones, death, evil, fear, poets,
Form: Elegy

Sweet Rose of Virtue: William Dunbar Translation

...Sweet Rose of Virtue
by William Dunbar (c. 1460-1530)
loose translation/modernization/interpretation by Michael R. Burch

after William Dunbar

Sweet rose of virtue and of gentleness,
delightf...

Categories: sawbones, character, desire, devotion, flower,
Form: Sonnet

Foggy Tweet

...Air
Lives
Around

Bee
Flies
With sound


Check
Cheap
Chatter

Dew
Lake
Scatter


Ease
Mind
To find

First
Aid
And kind


Ghoul
Walks
With breath

Hound
Hails
Killed m...

Categories: sawbones, how i feel,
Form: Abecedarian

Thus Ominous and Elliptical Be the Tone of This

...Species sundry sentential 
Line the lost lowered loft
Whose weary wayward-ceiled 
Roof raises itself over the lot:
The diverse specimen bottles of pharmaceutic potations,
Mortared and mixed as b...

Categories: sawbones, absence, age, america, angst,
Form: I do not know?

The August Lion

...The August Lion

By: J. Philip Harris

In the area of the afternoon, right before the stars
Where the little gray strands spread out among the coffee roots
Through the looking glass 
Beyond th...

Categories: sawbones, animal, august, courage, dad,
Form: Personification

Fall Ing

...pondered

I discovered the season's called FALL,
'cause ambition skips casting’s call.
rain and darkness
grumpy bark-ness
I sink like a skiff in a squall

pleaded

Doctor! Doctor! Diagnosis...

Categories: sawbones, nonsense, seasons,
Form: Limerick

No Silent Night

...There were no wise men come to see
No king to charge a death decree
No guiding light
No silent night 
No precious gifts or subsidies

There was some help, an old sawbones
A nice warm bed away ...

Categories: sawbones, birthday,
Form: Rhyme